Re: [libav-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate obsolete XvMC hardware decoding support

2013-11-05 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:16:31AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: XvMC has long ago been superseded by newer acceleration APIs, such as VDPAU, and few downstreams still support it. Furthermore XvMC is not implemented within the hwaccel framework, but requires its own specific code in the MPEG-1/2

[libav-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate obsolete XvMC hardware decoding support

2013-11-04 Thread Diego Biurrun
XvMC has long ago been superseded by newer acceleration APIs, such as VDPAU, and few downstreams still support it. Furthermore XvMC is not implemented within the hwaccel framework, but requires its own specific code in the MPEG-1/2 decoder, which is a maintenance burden. --- For some funny reason